Elevation views revealed the collage’s silhouette, highlighting areas of visual weight, potential openings, and spatial interaction between forms.
The upper portion of the collage—centered around the ceramic turtle—was identified as the focal element. Its formal complexity, scale, and curvature gave it architectural potential. This part was isolated and positioned as the primary structure in the final spatial plan.
The form was tested in both urban and landscape contexts, with the final placement in a mountain setting to enhance contrast. Color correction, lighting, and environmental elements like haze, sun, and figures were added to emphasize mood, scale, and atmosphere.
The collage started as instinct. Fragments arranged without rules, just form, tension, and curiosity. Objects were placed for how they leaned, overlapped, or resisted each other, how one edge met another. It was an arrangement built on feeling, not function.
The collage was scanned from multiple angles to capture its complete geometry, including hidden surfaces, depth changes, and overlapping forms. Using 3D scanning software, the model was deconstructed into vertices, faces, and slices to better understand its structure. The mesh was cleaned and remeshed to ensure smooth surfaces and accurate edges.
Section cuts exposed internal voids, thicknesses, and layered surfaces—revealing spatial relationships that weren’t visible in elevation. These insights helped define structure, depth, and points of entry.
The final composition was placed in a mountainous landscape to heighten contrast and suggest a public intervention embedded in nature. The ceramic turtle form—with its rounded shell and central presence—became the main structure, reimagined as a botanical garden. It held the most complexity, mass, and spatial potential.
Narrative
Digitizing Form
Begin translating the collage into something that could be inhabited or spatialized
Once the digital model was complete, the goal shifted to spatial understanding. 3D scanning became the bridge, it translated the collage into geometry that could be sectioned, scaled, and occupied. It allowed me to isolate parts, test hierarchy, and begin imagining how each form might behave at scale.
Start
Objects as found—isolated for form, texture, and potential.
Ceramic turtle figurine, Receipt, Cigarettes, Coins, Fries, Glove
DAPPEN DAPPY
This project began with a walk through the city, collecting overlooked fragments left in the street. These found objects became the base of an iterative process of observation, scanning, sketching, and translation.
The goal: to explore how unnoticed forms can be re-seen, reframed, and reassembled into a system of relationships and structures.
Once assembled we wrote a short story imagining a scenario around it,giving narrative meaning to the arrangement.
In the final stage, the collage was reimagined and rendered as an inhabitable space, with all its components spatialized.
Studio Project 2022
Featured in YES Year End Show
